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Letters t m No; 77,868, awe Mqy 12, 1868, v

. IMPROVEMENT in meme LEATHER. f

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TO ,ALL WHOM T MAY: CONCERN: v v t V. Be it known that I, AUGUST mm, of New Albany, Floyd eounty, State of Indiana, have invented a new 1 and u seful Improvement in the Method of Finishing Upper -Leetherf by which the same is rendered entirely water-pro of;, and I do hereby deolare'that the follo'iving is afnll, Clear, and exact description ofthe-same- I am aware that the habithas'long prevailed, especially in the country, to grease-in winter with bacon, v tallo v, lard, or other animal fat, boots and shoes, in order to render the leather eoft, and, in a degree, waterproof; but this planhas always been considered objeotionablQfa's'it gii'esxtb theQbo'ot it most ungainlj appearance, it being impossible to blul: oz-Lpolish'the sa'me ,'.after -the grezise .has best} applied, and, besides, it only aecemplis hes ia e. rery-ia' perfeet-manuer-the deir'e'dffibjeet. '7 VMy invention consist's'in rendering the leather entirely water-proofiby app'lj'ing to ,the finished-hide the .tallow obtained from walrus fat,,ir i--a softs tate, and then in thorpilghly' drying the same over a slow fire..

1 To enable others skilled iri'tbe art to use we 'epply my invention, I will proceed to describe thesame; i take the'tallow or fatty part" of the walrus, which let. 'well-known artiele of commerce, and melt the same until it is reduced to a soft solution, i i

v 5 I thefifakean ordinary calf-skill or other hidethjathas been properly tanned, and apply, with the'hand or a brush, the solutionf After the leather has beenlthoroughly moistened withthe solution, I dry the same over 4 Egperienee has 'clearly SllbWQ that when the solution is applied, and the leather afterwai'ds treated as described, the peresof the leather are-sorfilledwith tbersolution that a perfectly water-proof articleis produced,

Lwitbout' inthe slightest degree injuring, the appearance of the leather, be it of the i iner or coai-ser quality. Eiperience has also proven that the leather, after'the solutipn5 has been applied, is more durable, and its value in everyregardenhanced. I i

Having thus fully dese bed m'y inventiomwliat I elaim .th er'ein as new,"and desire to secure byLetters Patent,is- V V r 'Rendering leather water-proof, when the same is accomplished by the hrooess substantially as described.

v .New Albany, Indiana, August 29, 1867: v r r V AUGUST BERTBAM; r

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